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This week was one where we were going to put together what we had learned the past 6 weeks. This means we would take teamwork, trust, story, physical space, status, and character and make a deadly cocktail.
After some warm up games, we were told 2 rules of improv. One we could never break, and the other only when we really knew what we were doing. The first rule was to never deny the reality someone else has setup. This should never be broken. The second rule is not to ask questions. Patrick gave us an incentive to not ask questions. He would do 10 push ups for every question we asked. I would have thought having us do pushups would have been a bigger incentive, but I am not complaining.
We played a game of lay-ups, where 1 person would go on stage, "lay up" by saying a line, and the other person would "rebound" by responding with a line. Each person would go to the back of the other line, thus alterntating roles. This was relatively easy. We did end up with one question, and it was silly. One player added an "ok?" to the end of their line!!!
We played the lay-up game the rest of the evening with some variations. We went to 2 lines alternating with each player. Then 1 line but doing the scene backwards. Finally 2 lines alternating backwards. Doing it backwards is quite a challenge and a lot of fun.
The 2 hours were over way too quickly and I found myself wanting to carry on playing the game for many more hours.
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